TV series

Broken News

2005★ 7.7 · 7Ended1 seasonComedyNews

Overview

Broken News is a comedy programme shown on BBC Two in autumn 2005 and in Australia on SBS-TV from the 17 July 2006. The show poked fun at the world of 24-hour rolling news channels. The title of the show is a play on the phrase "breaking news". The show jump cut between its various spoof TV channels, which covered both the central story and other stories that would be of interest to their audience. A large part of the comedy came from observations about the nature of news presentation rather than the stories themselves.

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Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch
as Will Parker

Claudia Christian
as Julia Regan - IBS

Duncan Duff
as Richard Pritchard - ESN

Sharon Horgan
as Katie Tate - ESN

Colin Stinton
as Anthony Markovitz

Steve Toussaint
as Adam Lockwood

Indira Varma
as Melanie Bellamy

Philip Brodie
as Colin Kay - So News

Tom Goodman-Hill
as Guy Batson - Go Sports

Sarah Hadland
as Claire - Traffic Reports

Pip Torrens
as Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter

Darren Boyd
as Nick Burham

Crew

Tony Roche
Writer

Jon Plowman
Producer

John Morton
Writer

Seasons

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Season 1

Episodes: 6